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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Trimet continues fighting down and dirty

Follow
the link for the recent letter from the Northwest Oregon Labor Council
to Neil McFarlane, General Manager of TriMet concerning the ongoing
contract dispute as reported by ATU 757 Political Coordinator Mike
Pucik. What is interesting is the response the Labor Council received
from TriMet, not from Neil McFarlane, but from TriMet's Labor Relation's
Director, Randy Stedman.

In
typical TriMet fashion, Stedman is now floating the idea that the
Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB) may lack jurisdiction over
Trimet and its three rulings which found TriMet to be in violation of
the law. TriMet never quits. Always trying to put the blame for poor
management decisions on someone else.

And
what is really amazing is Stedman's claim that "TriMet is unabashedly
pro-union and strongly believes in traditional principles of collective
bargaining under PECBA." It would actually be funny, but unfortunately
it isn't because TriMet leadership really believes this "fairytale"
story.